Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...where every window is latticed against the sun, is a maze of narrow streets into which tall stucco houses jut at crazy angles. All but one of the city gates are generally kept locked, and a Christian in Jidda is acutely conscious of the hostile glances of the purely Arab citizens, all of whom carry knives. Christian prospectors for Standard Oil were careful to grow beards and assume native dress. Jidda, however, had no terrors last week for smooth-shaven, cosmopolitan Bert Fish, a wealthy Florida real-estate operator who several times circled the globe before he became finance director...
...While Turkey is doing all she can to prevent the war from spreading, no one can be sure that this can be avoided," he added. The Premier's point of view was underlined by a visit to Ankara of General Maxime Weygand, chief of the big French and Arab Army assembled in nearby Syria...
Further south, based in Palestine and Trans-Jordan, is a fourth Army, of perhaps 100,000 British, Colonial and Arab soldiers. They are strung out along the pipelines from Kirkuk to Haifa and Tripoli and from Mosul to Alexandretta, guarding the oil that fuels the Allies' eastern Mediterranean naval forces. Their assemblage of air power headquartered at Aqaba (on the eastern finger-tip of the Red Sea), has auxiliary fighting bases scattered far up into Iraq...